Some articles on talking boards, talking board, boards, board:
... cumbersome, a new one was devised, supposedly from a suggestion by the spirits themselves the talking board ... Early examples of talking boards were baskets attached to a pointy object that spun under the hands of the mediums, to point at letters printed on cards scattered around, or ... Talking boards were tricky to set up and to operate ...
... for his marketing and manufacture of Ouija boards from the 1890s through the 1920s ... Fuld is seen as the father of the Ouija board ... Though Fuld never claimed to have invented the Ouija board, intense media coverage in the 1920s credited him with it ...
Famous quotes containing the words boards and/or talking:
“The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard—it is absurd, unreal, dangerous.... The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“What strikes many twin researchers now is not how much identical twins are alike, but rather how different they are, given the same genetic makeup....Multiples don’t walk around in lockstep, talking in unison, thinking identical thoughts. The bond for normal twins, whether they are identical or fraternal, is based on how they, as individuals who are keenly aware of the differences between them, learn to relate to one another.”
—Pamela Patrick Novotny (20th century)